Community and farm forestry climate mitigation projects: case studies from Uttaranchal, India

Hooda, Neeta; Gera, Mohit; Andrasko, Kenneth; Sathaye, Jayant; Gupta, Mohini; Vasistha, H. B.; Chandran, M. D. Subash; Rassaily, S. S.

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“…The values for carbon sequestration by bole (1.98-2.2 Mg C ha -1 per year) recorded in the present study are higher than the estimates of 1.1 Mg C ha -1 per year for natural forest cover (Lal and Singh, 2000) and 0.5 and 3.4 Mg Cha -1 per year for community-based teak forests in the Harda Forest Division of Madhya Pradesh, India (Poffenberger et al, 2001). The estimates are, however, comparable to the estimates of Gera et al (2006), Hooda et al (2007), and Gera et al (2011) for P. deltoides, but lower than the 3.2 Mg C ha -1 per year reported by Lal and Singh (2000) for plantations. Dhiman (2009) estimated that only 1.04 Mg C out of 2.5 Mg C from the poplar production system in India is locked in wood-based products for different durations; the remaining is released back in the form of fuel and only a marginal fraction of 0.3 Mg C is added to soil through leaf litter every year.…”

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Growth, biomass, carbon stocks, and sequestration in an age series of Populus deltoides plantations in Tarai region of central Himalaya

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Growth, biomass, carbon stocks, and sequestration in an age series of Populus deltoides plantations in Tarai region of central Himalaya

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CHATURVEDI²,

Kaushal³

et al. 2014

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“…Previous authors have estimated high potential of carbon storage in Indian forests, especially through raising plantations (e.g. Bhadwal and Singh 2002;Lal and Singh 2000;Manhas et al 2006;Hooda et al 2007;Baishya et al 2009). Bhadwal and Singh (2002) used the Land Use and Carbon Sequestration Model (LUCS) model and estimated that under a regular plantation forestry scenario in India, 7 Pg of carbon would be sequestered between 2000 and 2050.…”

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Carbon storage and sequestration potential of selected tree species in India

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“…An earlier study by Hooda et al (2007) estimated the C mitigation potential of Eucalyptus under agro forestry system in the Uttarakhand state of India. The comparison of Eucalyptus for bioenergy at 6 year rotation and for carbon sink at 10 year rotation showed higher mitigation potential in bioenergy case.…”

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Carbon storage versus fossil fuel substitution: a climate change mitigation option for two different land use categories based on short and long rotation forestry in India

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Mohren

Dadhwal

2010

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Short rotation bioenergy crops for energy production are considered an effective means to mitigate the greenhouse effect, mainly due to their ability to substitute fossil fuels. Alternatively, carbon can be sequestered and stored in the living biomass. This paper compares the two land use categories (forest land and non-forest land) for two management practices (short rotation vs. long rotation) to study mitigation potential of afforestation and fossil fuel substitution as compared to carbon storage. Significant carbon benefit can be obtained in the long run from using lands for growing short rotation energy crops and substituting fossil fuels by the biomass thus produced, as opposed to sequestering carbon in the biomass of the trees. When growth rates are high and harvest is used in a sustainable manner (i.e., replanting after every harvest), the opportunities for net carbon reductions appear to be fossil fuel substitution, rather than storage in ecosystem biomass. Our results suggest that at year 100 a total of 216 Mg C ha −1 is sequestered for afforestation/ reforestation using long rotation sal (Shorea robusta Gaertn.f) species, as opposed to offset of 412 Mg C ha −1 for carbon storage and fossil fuel substitution for short rotation poplar (Populus Deltoides Marsh) plantations. The bioenergy option results in a continuous stream of about 3 Mg C ha −1 yr −1 of carbon benefits per year on forest land and 4 Mg C ha −1 yr −1 on non-forest land. Earlier studies have shown that in India waste land availability for establishing energy plantations is in the range of 9.6 to 36.5 Mha. Thus, using the 758 Tg biomass per year generated from 9.6 Mha waste land gives a mitigation potential in the range of 227 to 303 Tg C per year for carbon storage and fossil fuel substitution from poplar plantation for substituting coal based power generation. Depending upon the land

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Community and farm forestry climate mitigation projects: case studies from Uttaranchal, India

Abstract: Mitigation, Carbon, Farm forestry, Community forestry, Financial feasibility, Baseline, Additionality,

Cited by 24 publications

References 7 publications

Growth, biomass, carbon stocks, and sequestration in an age series of Populus deltoides plantations in Tarai region of central Himalaya

Growth, biomass, carbon stocks, and sequestration in an age series of Populus deltoides plantations in Tarai region of central Himalaya

Carbon storage and sequestration potential of selected tree species in India

Carbon storage versus fossil fuel substitution: a climate change mitigation option for two different land use categories based on short and long rotation forestry in India

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